I do not need... Eurocentric feminists to dictate to me what I wear or shouldn't wear.

[The Straight Story]

85. Well, allow me to explain :)

About the doors (in a moment).

"I simply find it sad and ironic that naked women get attention and other activism barely gets a nod."

We can both find this sad, but the fact is that it does bring attention where before there was not. Our media sucks and people know that they have to do 'wild' things to get attention. I still remember streakers being covered back in the 70's (it was a thing back then).

But we cannot fully blame the media here - they give us what we want. I have posted many, many, stories here that get no attention that should have gotten more. As have others (and they have posted threads I did not kick or reply to either).

I look at oppression from a large view - not just of one group but of many. I harp on your body, your choice - because I see limiting choice to any group as bad for all groups. When I apply that principle to some things I am called a libertarian. Which brings me to what you said:

"The loss of agency, the reason ANY protests are needed, occurs under the oppressive system patriarchy, which I'm gathering you don't believe in. "

I do believe in, if you would like to call it that 'patriarchy' - but I think it has less to do with men and more to do with the wealthy and powerful. Yes, they are mostly men. For now. But at the core of what they preach/believe/do is controlling the 99%.

It is not just women rising up against power, but men also. And they, the ones in power, like to divide us and see us fight against each other.

---About Doors
"What is it with you and doors anyway?"

It is now a classical reference here on DU, like pit bulls and the Olive Garden. It comes from the thread where benevolent sexism was discussed and the whole idea that a man holding open a door for a woman was an example of men being sexist. Across the globe, and even here, we have women being beaten, killed, etc, and some folks here on DU were telling men that opening doors for them was, in some ways, just as bad.

As noted elsewhere, my mom taught me it was a polite thing to do. A woman taught me this. I can post a ton of threads which have something to do with oppression but a few here jump on things like this.

I can use a lot of time looking up stories, posting them, hoping folks will see them - but then get told I don't care because I am just a sexist pig because I opened a door or laughed at a dongle joke.